I think it’s safe to say that one of the more anticipated entries on the 2026 movie schedule is the Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping. The upcoming book-to-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same name tells the story of Haymitch Abernathy’s games, and that means we’ll be swept back into the brutal world of Panem and this yearly event. Now, one of the movie’s stars, McKenna Grace, has opened up about filming the project and the part of it that has been the most “surreal.”
As Regretting You came out on the 2025 movie schedule, McKenna Grace’s co-star in that movie, Mason Thames, interviewed her for ET. During that chat, he specifically asked her what “the most surreal part” of filming her next movie, Sunrise on the Reaping, has been. Her answer was about a specific scene, as she said:
